Musician and part-time actor Michael Lee Aday (born Marvin Lee Aday), better known by his stage name of
Meat Loaf, is the father of singer
Pearl Aday and actress
Amanda Aday.
Keith was married to film producer
Alison Owen, with whom he has two children, musician and actress
Lily Allen and actor
Alfie Allen. He has also been married to film producer
Nira Park and has a daughter with actress
Tamzin Malleson.
Phylicia Rashad is the former spouse of both
Victor Willis, former lead singer of the group
Village People, and former
NFL football player turned sportscaster,
Ahmad Rashad. Phylicia and Ahmad Rashad are the parents of actress
Condola Rashad.
Gregg was once married to
Cher (see
Bono). With her he has musician son,
Elijah Blue Allman. He also has son musician
Devon Allman through a previous marriage. From another marriage he is also the father of
Layla Allman, musician and lead singer of the band,
Picture Me Broken.
Music manager and agent
Don Arden was the father of
Sharon Osbourne (see
Osbourne), the wife and manager of heavy metal icon
Ozzy Osbourne. Sharon entered the public consciousness for the first time with the success of the reality TV show The Osbournes.
The oldest of Ozzy and Sharon's children,
Aimee Osbourne, chose not to appear on The Osbournes; she is an actress, singer, and writer. Her two younger siblings did appear on the show;
Kelly is an actress and singer and
Jack is a director and producer.
Pinal and Banquells gave birth to actress
Silvia Pasquel. Pasquel's younger sister by means of her father's remarriage is actress/singer
Rocio Banquells. Pinal and Alatriste were the parents of actress
Viridiana Alatriste, and Pinal and Guzman gave birth to Luis Enrique Guzman and singer
Alejandra Guzman.
Actor
John Drew Barrymore married first actress
Cara Williams. From his subsequent marriage to actress/manager Jaid Barrymore (née Ildiko Jaid Mako), he was the father of actress
Drew Barrymore. Drew was briefly married to MTV host and comedian
Tom Green. His last marriage was to actress
Nina Wayne.
Actor
Dan Blocker, is the father of actor
Dirk Blocker and producer
David Blocker. Dan's most notable character is Eric "Hoss" Cartwright on the television show Bonanza.
Bono
Actor, singer, producer, and politician
Sonny Bono was married to singer, director, producer, and actress
Cher and are the parents of actor and activist
Chaz Bono.
Asia Booth was married to actor-comedian and manager
John Sleeper Clarke, and their sons were actors Creston and Wilfred Clarke.
Booth
Actor,
Antony Booth, married four times with eight children. He is the father of
Cherie Booth of the
King's Counsel with first wife and actress, Gale Howard (née Joyce Smith). With another partner he is the father of
Lauren Booth, an English broadcaster and journalist. The second of his four wiveswas the actress,
Pat Phoenix.
Pat was first married to actor, Peter Marsh, and later married actor, Alan Browning, until his death.
Cassandra's first husband was Dermot Harris (a younger brother of Irish actor
Richard Harris), with whom she had two children:
Chris Brosnan and late Charlotte. After Harris' death, both were adopted by Brosnan.
Gary Busey is the father of
Jake Busey. (Their legal names are William Gareth Jacob Busey Sr. and William Gareth Jacob Busey Jr., respectively.) [citation needed]
Actor
John Carradine was the father of four actors.
Bruce Carradine, whom John adopted, was the son of his first wife Ardanelle McCool from a previous marriage, and
David Carradine was his son by Ardanelle.
Keith and
Robert Carradine are John's sons from his second marriage to Sonia Sorel. She later had a son by artist
Michael Bowen; their son is actor
Michael Bowen.
June and her first husband, country singer,
Carl Smith, were the parents of country singer,
Carlene Carter. Carlene was married to singer-songwriter-producer,
Nick Lowe, from 1979 to 1990.
June was the mother of country singer-songwriter,
Rosie Nix Adams, by her second husband, Edwin "Rip" Nix.
June's third husband was singer,
Johnny Cash. They were the parents of singer, songwriter, and producer,
John Carter Cash.
Johnny was the father of country singer,
Rosanne Cash, from his first marriage to Vivian Liberto. Rosanne was married to country superstar,
Rodney Crowell, from 1979 to 1992. She then married musician,
John Leventhal.
Actor
Jack Cassidy was the father of singer/actor
David Cassidy by his first wife, actress Evelyn Ward. He and his second wife, singer and actress
Shirley Jones, had three sons—singer/actor
Shaun Cassidy and actors
Patrick and Ryan Cassidy.
David's first wife was actress
Kay Lenz. He is the father of actress and singer
Katie Cassidy from a relationship with model Sherry Benedon.
Shaun was married to model
Ann Pennington and actress
Susan Diol. His current wife is producer Tracey Turner.
Tom is the father of Abigail and Lily Chapin, two-thirds of the
Chapin Sisters folk music group. He is the stepfather of the third member, Jessica Craven, daughter of film director
Wes Craven.
Paul and Barry Chuckle, known as the
Chuckle Brothers, and their elder brothers,
The Patton Brothers are the son of James Patton Elliott, a
Gang Show performer known as Gene Patton. The brothers appear together on
ChuckleVision.
Nick Clooney's sisters were Elizabeth ("Betty") Clooney and actress/singer
Rosemary Clooney. Rosemary Clooney was married to actor
José Ferrer, who in turn was previously married to actress/acting teacher
Uta Hagen. Clooney and Ferrer were the parents of actor
Miguel Ferrer and Gabriel Ferrer.
Gabriel married singer/actress
Debby Boone; their twin daughters are Dustin and Gabi.
Debby is a member of the singing Boone Sisters, cousins of actor
Randy Boone and the daughters of singer
Pat Boone.
Note: Actor
Mel Ferrer is unrelated to this family
August and his former wife, dancer and choreographer Joy Vogelsang, are parents of actor and radio DJ
Marc Coppola, director-producer
Christopher Coppola, and actor Nicholas Coppola, better known by his stage name of
Nicolas Cage. Nicolas was married to both actress
Patricia Arquette and singer
Lisa Marie Presley.
Sinéad Cusack is married to the actor
Jeremy Irons (see
Irons). Their sons, Samuel and
Max Irons, are also actors. Sinéad has another biological son, the politician
Richard Boyd Barrett, who was given up for adoption.
Cusack (USA)
Dick Cusack took to acting late in life. He is the father of actors,
John,
Joan,
Ann, Bill and Susie Cusack.
Billy Ray was first married to songwriter, Cindy Smith. He is the father of singer and actress
Miley Cyrus. Billy Ray's adopted son and Miley's half-brother,
Trace Cyrus, is a member of pop band,
Metro Station. The youngest member of the family,
Noah, is an actress.
Motion picture-producer
Dino De Laurentiis is the brother of fellow producer Luigi De Laurentiis, whose son (Dino's nephew) is fellow producer
Aurelio De Laurentiis. Dino's son and daughters are fellow producers
Federico,
Francesca and Rafaella De Laurentiis. Dino's daughter,
Veronica is an author and actress; Veronica's daughter, Dino's granddaughter, is
Giada De Laurentiis, a celebrity chef, author, and television personality.
Playwright Henry C. de Mille was the father of playwright film director
William de Mille and film director
Cecil B. DeMille. William was the father of dancer choreographer
Agnes de Mille.
Micky and his former wife, British model and TV presenter
Samantha Juste, are the parents of actress
Ami Dolenz, who is married to kickboxer-actor
Jerry Trimble.
Actress
Jesse Draper was a star on The Naked Brothers Band and is the producer and host of the web series The Valley Girl Show. She is the daughter of venture capitalist
Tim Draper, a recurring star and consulting producer for The Naked Brothers Band. Her aunt is
Polly Draper and her cousins are Nat and Alex Wolff.
Jesse Draper's brothers, Billy and Adam, are recurring stars on The Naked Brothers Band.
Coulter Mulligan, a recurring star on The Naked Brothers Band, is a nephew of Polly Draper, and cousin of Jesse, Billy and Adam Draper, and Nat and Alex Wolff.
Drucker
The husband-and-wife classical clarinetists
Stanley and Naomi Drucker are the parents of
rockabilly double bassist Leon Drucker, better known as
Lee Rocker, and
alt-country singer-songwriter Rosanne Drucker.
Musician
Bob Dylan and his first wife, former model
Sara Dylan, are the parents of film director
Jesse Dylan and musician
Jakob Dylan. Jesse's wife Susan Traylor and Jakob's wife Paige Dylan are both actresses.
Comedian
Harry Parke (born Harry Einstein) and his wife and actress
Thelma Leeds are the parents of actor and comedy writer
Bob Einstein and entertainer
Albert Brooks (born Albert Lawrence Einstein).
Mia was married to both
Frank Sinatra and musician
André Previn. After her divorce from Previn, she was in a long-term relationship with entertainment multihyphenate
Woody Allen that ended when Allen became romantically involved with (and ultimately married)
Soon-Yi Previn, Mia's adoptive daughter with Previn.
Fields
Actress
Chip Fields is the mother of actresses
Kim,
Jere and Alexis Fields.
Actor
Errol Flynn was the father of actor/journalist
Sean Leslie Flynn and grandfather of actor
Sean Flynn (born Sean Rio Amir) through his daughter, Rory Flynn.
Actor,
Robert Foxworth, is the son of Erna Beth (née Seaman), a writer. Robert was married to Marilyn McCormick, who had son and actor, Bo Foxworth and daughter, actress, Kristyn Foxworth. Robert was then married to actress,
Elizabeth Montgomery (see
Montgomery).
archaeologist
Adolf Furtwängler, son of philologist and teacher Wilhelm Furtwängler, was married to Adelheid Wendt, daughter of philologist Gustav Wendt, whose sister Mathilde Wendt was a well known pianist, and Anna Dohrn, daughter of entomologist
Carl August Dohrn
one son was conductor and composor
Wilhelm Furtwängler, he married writer Elisabeth Albert, widdowed Elisabeth Ackermann, daughter of politician
Katharina von Kardorff-Oheimb and chemist and entrepreneur Heinrich Albert
the daughter of the first marriage of Elisabeth Furtwängler was actress
Kathrin Ackermann
third grade nephew to Wilhelm Furtwängler was physician and translator Hubert Furtwängler, he was married to pianist, painter and translator
Margarete Furtwängler-Knittel, who was daughter to writer
John Knittel and sister-in-law of
Luise Rainer
Musician
Aretha Franklin often recorded her music with her two sisters
Erma Franklin and
Carolyn Franklin, who were solo singers in their own right, brother Cecil Franklin was a singer as was their father, the Reverend C.L. Franklin.
Late politician, broadcaster and writer Sir
Clement Freud, grandson of
Sigmund Freud, was married to director and actress
June Flewett and had five children, including public relations executive
Matthew and broadcaster and presenter
Emma Freud. Sir Clement's niece, novelist and screenwriter
Esther Freud, is married to actor
David Morrissey.
Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm) married film director
Vincente Minnelli as her second husband, and they were the parents of actress
Liza Minnelli; Garland's third husband was producer
Sidney Luft, and by him was mother of cabaret singer
Lorna Luft.
Singer-songwriter
Bob Geldof is the father of broadcaster, journalist and model
Peaches Geldof and model
Pixie Geldof by his ex-wife music journalist and presenter
Paula Yates, who subsequently married singer
Michael Hutchence. Yates is the biological daughter of television host
Hughie Green but was raised by presenter and producer
Jess Yates and his wife actress Elaine Smith as their own.
Peaches was married to
S.C.U.M lead singer Thomas Cohen. She was married to
Chester French musician, Max Drummey.
Composer
Philip Glass's cousin
Ira Glass is radio host and creator of This American Life.
Gleason-Miller
Actor
Jackie Gleason's daughter Linda married actor
Jason Miller; their son, Jackie's grandson, is actor
Jason Patric (full name: Jason Patrick Miller Junior).
Music producer and
Motown founder
Berry Gordy is the younger brother of songwriter and composer
Anna Gordy Gaye, the first wife of singer
Marvin Gaye. He is the father of musician Kennedy Gordy, better known as
Rockwell, from a relationship with Margaret Norton, and actress
Rhonda Ross Kendrick from another relationship with singer
Diana Ross, and rapper/musician Stefan Gordy (
Redfoo) from a relationship with writer-producer Nancy Leiviska.
Ross is the mother of actress
Tracee Ellis Ross from her marriage to Robert Ellis Silberstein, and actor
Evan Ross
Næss was the father of singer-songwriter
Leona Naess from his previous marriage to Filippa Kumlin D'Orey.
Victorian stage actor
Charles Groves was a father to
Fred Groves, a leading actor of British silent films, and a brother to
Walter Groves of the Fred Karno Company. Henry Groves, a brother to Charles and Walter, is the great-grandfather of Linda Groves, who married the comedian
George Roper. Roper himself was the great-nephew of the Music Hall comedians
Johnnie Cullen and
George Sanford and a first cousin once removed of the wartime singer
Jeannie Bradbury. His son
Matt Roper is an actor and comedian.
Gunn
James Gunn, film director, screenwriter, and novelist is brothers with actor
Sean, screen and television writer
Brian, political entertainer
Matt, and film executive
Patrick Gunn. They are cousins with television and screenwriter
Mark Gunn. In 2000, James Gunn married actress
Jenna Fischer; the couple later divorced.
Note the family is not related to television personality
Tim Gunn
Scriptwriter
Hans Hagen (also known as Hans Oliva), and actress
Eva-Maria Hagen are the parents of punk rock singer
Nina Hagen. Eva-Maria was later married to
Wolf Biermann, a singer-songwriter.
Sir
Peter Hall is a theatre and film director. His children are Emma Hall (from his fourth marriage to theatre publicist Nichola Frei); actress
Rebecca (from his third marriage to opera singer
Maria Ewing), director
Edward and theatre designer Lucy Hall (both from his second marriage to his assistant Jacqueline Taylor); producer
Christopher and painter/actress/singer-songwriter
Jennifer (both from his first marriage to actress
Leslie Caron; Caron was previously married to musician
Geordie Hormel and subsequently to American producer/director
Michael Laughlin).
Jennifer is married to producer and screenwriter
Glenn Wilhide
Christopher is married to Hon. Jane Studd, formerly a third assistant director, and their son Freddie Hall is a second assistant director while his younger brother Ben Hall is training to become an actor.
Hallyday/Smet-Vartan-Scotti
French singer and actor Jean-Philippe Smet, better known by his stage name of
Johnny Hallyday, and his first wife, French singer
Sylvie Vartan, are the parents of singer
David Hallyday (born David Smet). Johnny is the father of actress
Laura Smet from a later relationship with actress
Nathalie Baye.
Actor,
Tom Hanks's son by his first marriage, to actress Samantha Lewes†, is actor
Colin Hanks. Tom Hanks's second wife is actress and producer,
Rita Wilson.
Hanson is an American pop-rock band from Tulsa, Oklahoma formed by brothers Isaac (guitar, piano, vocals), Taylor (keyboards, piano, guitar, drums, vocals), and Zac Hanson (drums, piano, guitar, vocals).
Smith has two son whom are pro wrestlers, Mike and Matt.
Bruce also has two sons whom have wrestled at some point, Torrin and Bruce Jr.
Keith has a son named Conor whom pursued amateur wrestling in high school.
Ellie and her former husband, wrestler
Jim Neidhart, have three daughters. One of them,
Nattie Neidhart, is a wrestler and is married to wrestler
TJ Wilson.
Georgia and her husband, wrestler
B. J. Annis, have four children. One of them, Teddy Annis, wrestles as
Teddy Hart.
Bret's former sister-in-law was married to wrestler Tom Billington, better known as
Dynamite Kid. Billington was also the first cousin of
Davey Boy Smith.
Alison's former husband is wrestler
Ben Bassarab. One of their daughters, Brook, is married to pro wrestler
Pete Wilson. Their other daughter, Lindsay has dated wrestler Randy Myers and does make up for the wrestling reality show
Total Divas.
Diana and her former husband
Davey Boy Smith, Dynamite Kid's cousin and a wrestler, had two children. One of them,
Harry Smith, is a wrestler as well.
Timothy Hutton is the son of actor
Jim Hutton, who was popular during the 1960s and 1970s. His first wife was actress
Debra Winger, with whom he has one son, Noah. His second wife was Aurore Giscard d'Estaing, niece of former president of the French Republic
Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, and with whom he has one son, Milo.
Joseph Jackson, who had a brief and unsuccessful music career, and his wife
Katherine Jackson founded an extremely successful musical family.
Their first five sons (respectively their second, third, fourth, sixth, and eighth children in all)—
Jackie,
Tito,
Jermaine,
Marlon &
Michael—formed the singing group
The Jackson 5. Michael went on to even greater success as a solo artist, and was briefly married to
Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of musical icon
Elvis Presley. Jermaine is linked to the Gordy family through his former marriage to Hazel Gordy, the daughter of
Motown founder
Berry Gordy.
Their fifth child and second daughter,
La Toya Jackson, had modest success as a recording artist who received major publicity in 1988 when she landed a nude layout in Playboy.
Their last son,
Randy, replaced Jermaine in the Jackson 5 when it became The Jacksons.
Writer/director Horace Jenkins was the father of filmmaker and artist
Sacha Jenkins.
Jiminez-McCann-Brown
Mexican voice artist
Celia Jiminez was the mother of movie extra Celia McCann and film editor David McCann. David McCann is married to actress
Leonell McCann
Celia McCann is the mother of screenwriter Paul Brown and actress/comedian/singer,
Julie Brown.
Kim Kardashian-West was first married to songwriter
Damon Thomas, then professional basketball player
Kris Humphries, and now rapper
Kanye West, with whom she has four children.
Pop band,
KING is made up of four siblings. It began with five King siblings: Trillion, Marieangela "Queenie", Jazzy, Ruby, and Lucius. Jazzy and Ruby left in 2013 to form band,
Blonde Electra, and eventually sister Jemima joined them.
Nastassja married Egyptian filmmaker,
Ibrahim Moussa, and they have two children together, including daughter,
Sonja Kinski, who works as a model and actress. Nastassja then lived with musician,
Quincy Jones (see
Jones-Lipton), with whom he has a daughter.
With Minhoi Geneviève Loanic he has son and actor,
Nikolai Kinski.
Kirby
Actor
Bruce Kirby was father of late actor
Bruno Kirby. (Their real names are Bruno Giovanni Quidaciolu Sr. and Jr.)
third marriage is too singer and actress
Heike Köfer
Kohan-Noxon
Comedy writer Buz Kohan and novelist Rhea Kohan are the parents of television writer/producers
Jenji Kohan and
David Kohan. Jenji Kohan is the creator, showrunner, and executive producer for
Showtime's television series Weeds. She is married to
Christopher Noxon, a non-show-business writer. His sister is
Marti Noxon, another TV writer/producer.
Screenwriter-producer-director
Stanley Kubrick was the father of composer-filmmaker
Vivian Kubrick, who scored his movie Full Metal Jacket under the pseudonym
Abigail Mead. Moreover, Christianne Harlan-Kubrick (Stanley's widow and Vivian's mother) is the sister of film producer
Jan Harlan.
Nick was married to singer,
Jessica Simpson (see
Simpson). He then married television personality, television host, fashion model, and actress,
Vanessa Minnillo.
Drew married high school sweetheart and dancer and choreographer,
Lea Lachey.
Lai
Actress
Gigi Lai is the granddaughter of Hong Kong movie pioneer
Lai Man-Wai.
Rock pioneer
Jerry Lee Lewis is the brother of singer and pianist
Linda Gail Lewis. They are cousins of country musician
Mickey Gilley and disgraced televangelist
Jimmy Swaggart. Another first cousin to the Lewis siblings, J.W. Brown, was the bass guitarist in Lewis' band.
Brown's daughter
Myra Gale Brown became Jerry Lee's third wife. Their daughter, Phoebe Lewis, is a musician and her father's manager.
Shane,
Keavy,
Edele, Tara, and
Naomi Lynch are siblings who have all had singing careers. (Shane as part of the Irish boy band
Boyzone, twins Keavy and Edele as part of the Irish girl group
B*Witched, Tara as part of the Irish girl group
Fab!, and Naomi as part of the Irish girl group
Buffalo G.)
Neville first married Mary Angela Mond (see
Mond). He later married actress,
Gladys Cooper. His daughter with Gladys is Sally Pearson (aka Sally Cooper), who was married to actor,
Robert Hardy.
Gladys's daughter from her first marriage is Joan. After Neville, Gladys married actor,
Philip Merivale (see
Merivale).
Playwright-Screenwriter-Author
David Mamet was married to actress
Lindsay Crouse (daughter of playwright
Russel Crouse). They are the parents of actress
Zosia Mamet. Mamet is now married to singer-songwriter
Rebecca Pidgeon and Crouse to television director/editor Rick Blue.
Actor
David Markham was married to dramatist Olive Dehn and their children include actresses
Kika and
Petra Markham and poet and dramatist Jehane Markham
His son
Vincent J. McMahon, who succeeded Jess as the company's manager in 1953, took over ownership after Jess' death in 1954.
WWE is currently run by Vincent J.'s son
Vincent K. McMahon, who currently serves as chairman and CEO of the company. His wife
Linda served as CEO from 1993 until 2009.
Their son
Shane McMahon served as WWE's Executive Vice President, Global Media until he left in 2010. Their daughter
Stephanie McMahon-Levesque is WWE's Executive Vice President, Creative. Shane's wife
Marissa Mazzola-McMahon is WWE's Director of National Public Relations and owns a film production company. Stephanie's husband is current WWE wrestler Paul Levesque, better known as
Triple H.
Gladys was first married to Captain Herbert Buckmaster, with whom she has daughter, Joan. Gladys then married Sir
Neville Pearson (see
Pearson), a British newspaper publisher. Together, they have one daughter, Sally Pearson (aka Sally Cooper).
Sheridan's godparents are dramatist,
Sewell Stokes (see
Stokes), and actor,
Peter Bull (see
Bull). Sheridan has a son, Hugo. Ruth Leon, the critic and television producer, became Sheridan's second wife. Actress,
Joanna Lumley, is a cousin of Sheridan's.
Actor,
Keith Middleton, married actress, model, and singer-songwriter,
Toni Seawright, the first African American crowned
Miss Mississippi. They are the parents of actors and singer-songwriters,
Qaasim Middleton and Khalil Middleton (born Zuhri Khalil Ayele Mandara Middleton).
Miles
Bernard Miles, actor, was the father of actress Sally Miles.
Rapper, actor and entrepreneur
Master P, and rappers and actors
C-Murder and
Silkk the Shocker (real names Percy, Corey and Vyshonne Miller) are all brothers. Their cousin is producer and rapper
Mo B. Dick.
Robert was born Henry Montgomery Jr. to Henry Montgomery Sr., the president of the
New York Rubber Company.
Elizabeth Montgomery's first marriage was to New York City socialite, Frederick Gallatin Cammann. She was later married to
Academy Award winning actor,
Gig Young (see
Young). She then married producer,
William Asher (see
Asher), the son of producer, E.M. Asher. Film editor, Rebecca Asher, is their daughter. Her last husband was actor,
Robert Foxworth.
Mexican actor
Ruben Morales was married for most of the 1980s to actress/comedian
Aida Pierce. Their son is actor
Ruben Morales Zerecero (Zerecero is the family's actual name on his mother's side). Actress
Lucia Zerecero is a relative of Pierce and Morales Zerecero.
Morrow
Actor-director
Vic Morrow was the father of producer
Carrie Morrow and her younger sister, actress Jennifer Lee Morrow (better known as
Jennifer Jason Leigh). Jennifer was formerly married to director and filmmaker
Noah Baumbach.
Spanish flamenco guitarist Juan Muñoz is the father of
Pilar,
Lola, and
Lucía Muñoz, the founding three members of the vocal group
Las Ketchup; and Rocío Muñoz, who has later joined her sisters in the group.
Game show host
Jack Narz is the older brother of fellow game show host
Tom Kennedy (born James Narz). Jack and another game show host,
Bill Cullen, went on to marry daughters of Oscar-winning composer
Heinz Eric Roemheld.
Neame-Close
Late actress
Ivy Close and her first husband photographer Elwin Neame had two sons: producer and screenwriter
Ronald Neame and author Derek Neame
The Nolans were a successful singing act in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The band's lineup changed through the years, but the members were all sisters. Members were Anne, Denise, Maureen, Linda,
Bernadette, and
Coleen
Vivien's daughter from her first marriage is actress,
Suzanne Farrington. Vivien later was the romantic partner of actor,
John Merivale (see
Merivale), for many years until her death.
American actor and movie theater manager Eli Orowitz and his wife, American actress and comedian Peggy O'Neill, were the parents of Eugene Orowitz, who achieved television fame under his stage name of
Michael Landon.
Michael had children in show business from each of his three marriages. Michael adopted the son of his first wife, who went on to become (late) actor
Mark Landon. TV multihyphenate
Michael Landon Jr. and television screenwriter
Christopher B. Landon are Michael's sons from his second marriage. Actress
Jennifer Landon is from Michael's final marriage.
Ortiz de Pinedo
Actor
Oscar Ortiz de Pinedo was the father of actor/comedian/producer/director
Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo and comedian/writer Oscar Ortiz de Pinedo. Jorge Ortiz de Pinedo's second wife was producer Luigina Tuccio, and Jorge's eldest son, Pedro, is also a producer.
Actors/singers/television hosts
Donny Osmond and
Marie Osmond are brother and sister. Donny formerly sang with his brothers
Alan,
Wayne,
Merrill and
Jay as
The Osmonds; younger brother 'Little'
Jimmy Osmond later joined the group as well as having solo success. Some of the brothers still perform together as "The Osmond Brothers," while Alan's sons perform as "The Osmonds Second Generation."
Those sons include: Michael Alan, Nathan George, Douglas Kenneth, David Levi, Scott Merrill, Jonathon Pinegar, Alexander Thomas, and Tyler James.
Marie's daughter, Rachael Blosil, married
Gabriel Krueger, a fashion designer.
Country singers
Buck Owens and
Bonnie Owens were the parents of another country singer, Alvis Alan Owens, professionally known as
Buddy Alan. After Buck and Bonnie divorced while their son was growing up, she married another country singer,
Merle Haggard; Alan stayed with his mother..
P
Paich
Composer-musician
Marty Paich is the father of musician-songwriter and session player
David Paich, a founding member of
Toto.
Screenwriter-director,
Sam Peckinpah, was the uncle of producer,
David Peckinpah. (Their real names were David Edward Samuel Ernest Peckinpah Jr. and III, respectively.)
The Band Perry consists of three siblings: Kimberly, Neil, and Reid Perry. They are the niece and nephews of baseball author and journalist,
Dayn Perry.
James H. Ring was a leading comedian of the Boston Museum company.
Blanche Ring, his granddaughter, was an American singer and actress in Broadway theatre productions. Four generations of her ancestors were Shakespearean actors. She married an American stage and film actor,
Charles Winninger.
Her sister, Julie, is a stage actress who married actor, Al Sutherland (see
Sutherland). Their son is
A. Edward Sutherland, who became a film director.
Their sister, Frances, married
Thomas Meighan, the popular stage and later silent film actor.
Jason Jr. was once married to actress
Lauren Bacall (see
Bacall). He is the father of actors Jason Robards III with his first wife, Eleanor Pittman, and actor
Sam Robards with Bacall.
Actor
Yves Robert was first married to actress
Rosy Varte, and, with her, has a son, actor Jean-Denis Robert. He then married actress
Danièle Delorme (born Gabrielle Danièle Marguerite Andrée Girard; see
Girard).
Rosy later married actor and director Pierre Badel.
We the Kings lead singer and YouTube personality
Travis Robinson-Clark is married to actress and model Jenny Robinson-Clark. Travis's brother, musician
Taylor Clark, is the former We the Kings drummer.
Musician
Seal (born Olusegun Adeola Akarbi Samuel) is the brother of Jeymes Samuel, better known as The Bullitts, a singer-songwriter. He married supermodel
Heidi Klum.
Rob was once married to and has a daughter with former model
London King, musician
Elle King (born Tanner Elle Schneider). He later married television producer
Patricia Azarcoya Arce.
David married theatrical producer,
Irene Mayer (see
Mayer), daughter of
Louis B. Mayer, a film producer. They had two sons, Lewis Jeffrey and Daniel Selznick, both of whom also became film producers. He later married the actress
Jennifer Jones.
Jennifer was previously married to actor,
Robert Walker (see
Walker). They have sons and actors,
Robert Walker Jr. and Michael Walker. After Selznick, Jones married industrialist,
Norton Simon.
Miranda married the novelist and historian,
Andrew Sinclair (see
Sinclair), and had a son, Merlin. Her second marriage was to
Anthony Gottlieb, then executive editor of The Economist and author of a history of Western philosophy.
His third and current marriage is to former
New Bohemians lead singer-songwriter
Edie Brickell. They have three children: Adrian, Lulu and Gabriel. Edie and her stepson Harper have a band called
The Heavy Circles.
Simpson
Actress, fashion designer, and singer,
Jessica Simpson, was married to singer, producer, and actor,
Nick Lachey. Jessica's sister is actress and singer,
Ashlee Simpson.
Actor, Sir
Donald Sinden, whose younger brother is the actor Leon Sinden (whose partner was the actor
Walter Carr), was married to the late actress Diana Mahony. They had two children: actor
Jeremy Sinden (who was married to the actress Delia Lindsay) and actor and film director
Marc Sinden who was married to the film producer
Jo Gilbert. The Edwardian actress
Topsy Sinden (1878–1950) and her brother actor Bert Sinden (1879–1911), were cousins.
Contemporary Christian singer, Rebecca Smallbone, better known by her stage name,
Rebecca St. James, is the older sister of fellow contemporary Christian artists,
Joel and Luke Smallbone, who perform as the band,
For King & Country. In addition, she is the wife of Jacob Fink, bass guitarist of
Foster the People.
Smith
Rapper and actor,
Will Smith is the father of actor Trey Smith by his first wife, actress Sheree Zampino, and actors
Jaden and
Willow Smith by his second and current wife, actress
Jada Pinkett Smith.
Singer,
Rod Stewart, has been married several times with many different children. He was first married to actress,
Alana Stewart (nee Collins). Together they have daughter and model,
Kimberly Stewart, and son and reality star,
Sean Stewart.
Director
Preston Sturges married Eleanor Post Close, the daughter of Edward Bennett Close and Marjorie Meriwether Post. Edward Bennett Close, by his second wife, became the grandfather of actress
Glenn Close. Marjorie Post, by her second husband, was the mother of actress
Dina Merrill, whose second husband was late Oscar-winning actor
Cliff Robertson.
Sumner
Rock musician
Sting (real name Gordon Sumner) has been married to actress
Frances Tomelty and actress and producer
Trudie Styler. Among his children with Tomelty is musician and entrepreneur
Joe Sumner. Among his children with Styler are actress
Mickey Sumner and musician
Eliot Sumner.
Producer and actor
Patrick Tse and former wife actress Deborah Lee were the parents of actor and singer
Nicholas Tse, who was married to actress and
Cantopop singer
Cecilia Cheung.
Professional wrestler and wrestling promoter Jack Adkisson, better known as
Fritz Von Erich, was the father of five sons who followed in his footsteps as wrestlers under the Von Erich name—
Kevin,
David,
Kerry,
Mike, and
Chris. The family is famous for its supposed "curse"—although Jack lived until his natural death, his oldest son, Jack Jr., was killed in a freak childhood accident, David died in 1984 under disputed circumstances, and Mike, Chris, and Kerry all committed suicide between 1987 and 1993.
Kevin's son Ross and Kerry's daughter Lacey are wrestlers who perform under the Von Erich name.
Actor
Cole Hauser is the son of
Wings Hauser, another actor; who is the son of screenwriter
Dwight Hauser. Cole's maternal great-grandfather was film mogul
Harry Warner, and his maternal grandfather was
Milton Sperling, a Hollywood screenwriter and independent film producer.
Documentary maker and producer
Desmond Wilcox was married to journalist turned presenter
Esther Rantzen. Their daughter
Rebecca is a producer and television presenter.
Jett Williams, the posthumously born daughter of Hank and half-sister to Hank Jr., had modest success in country music.
Williams (John)
Composer/conductor
John Williams and actress/singer
Barbara Ruick are the parents of
Toto's lead singer
Joseph Williams and drummer Mark T. Williams. John is the brother of percussionist Don Williams, who has performed on many of John's film scores, and the son of Jazz drummer
Johnny Williams. Barbara Ruick is the daughter of late actors
Melville Ruick and
Lurene Tuttle.
David and Dolores Winans,
gospel music singers, recorded both together and separately as "Pop" and "Mom" Winans, and became progenitors of a highly prolific musical family. The following musicians can trace their family roots to Pop and Mom Winans:
The second through fifth sons of Pop and Mom—
Ronald,
Marvin,
Carvin, and Michael Winans—are best known as the gospel group
The Winans. Marvin's former wife,
Vickie Winans, has had a successful music career, and Michael has recorded with his wife Regina.
Four sons of The Winans—Marvin Jr., Carvin Jr., Michael Jr., and another son of Carvin Sr., Juan Winans—have recorded together as Winans Phase 2.
Mario Winans is Vickie's son from her prior marriage to Ronald Brown.
Daniel Winans, a gospel singer and producer, is Mom and Pop's sixth son.
Actor, producer, and author,
Thomas Winding, is the son of Ole.
Thomas was married five times. With his former wife and cinematographer,
Vibeke Winding, he is the father of singer,
Kasper Winding, and actress,
Sara Winding. With Lulu Gauguin (see
Gauguin) he has daughter and singer,
Alberte.
Vibeke later married film editor and director,
Anders Refn (see
Refn). They are the parents of director and screenwriter,
Nicolas Winding Refn.
Composer-musician-producer
Frank Zappa was the father of: actress-author-singer
Moon Unit who is married to Paul Doucette, former drummer and current rhythm guitarist of Matchbox Twenty; actor-composer-musician
Dweezil; actor-author-musician
Ahmet Zappa; actress-photographer
Diva Zappa. Frank's niece is actress (and, more recently, costumer)
Lala Sloatman, who was married to
Black Crowes lead singer/co-founder
Chris Robinson.
Keith (1949–) and Robert Carradine (1954–) and half-brother
Michael Bowen (1957–) (all sons of Sonia Sorel; Keith and Robert from her marriage to John Carradine, and Michael Bowen from her marriage to
artist Michael Bowen)
Melvin (1954-2019),
Kenneth (1959–), and
Kevon Edmonds (1958–); born Kevin Edmonds) — Melvin and Kevon are members of the R&B group
After 7, while Kenneth is better-known as R&B singer and producer Babyface.
Los Lonely Boys – Henry (1978–), Jojo (1980–), and Ringo Garza (1981–)
The
Marx Brothers (comedians); Chico/Leonard (1887–1961), Harpo/Arthur (1888–1964), Groucho/Julius (1890–1977), Gummo/Milton (1892–1977) and Zeppo/Herbet (1901–1979). (They also had an older brother, who died as an infant.)
Ronnie (1948–1977),
Donnie (1952–), and
Johnny Van Zant (1960–) — Ronnie was a founder and lead vocalist of
Lynyrd Skynyrd, Donnie was founder and lead vocalist of
38 Special, and Johnny is the lead vocalist of today's Lynyrd Skynyrd. Donnie and Johnny also perform together as
Van Zant.
Bunny (1955–),
Eldra "El" (1961–),
James (1963–), Mark and Randy DeBarge, all members of the band
DeBarge, plus five other musical siblings who were not in that band —
Robert "Bobby" (1956–1995), Tommy (both members of
Switch),
Chico (1966–), Darryl, and Carol "Peaches" DeBarge
The Jets — originally LeRoy (1965–), Eddie (1966–), Eugene (1967–), Haini (1968–), Rudy (1969–), Kathi (1970–), Elizabeth (1972–), and Moana Wolfgramm (1973–). Six younger Wolfgramm siblings are now members, namely Donnie, EtiVise, Maliana, Mika, Natalia, and Tony. Two other younger siblings, Kelela and Tiare, are in a side project, a rock band called
Against the Season.